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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: Office Of The Director <fbi.investigation005@gmail.com>
Reply-To: wiretransferdept523@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 05:21:46 -0700
Subject: CONTACT NOW MR.THOMAS H. ANDREW THE M.D:....FOR YOUR FUND TRANSFER.


*THIS IS THE (F.B.I)Christopher Asher WrayDirector OF FBIDirect Line:
302-597-0252Email:- fbi.investigation005@gmail.com
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/13xou95m9xxo1/?&cs=wh&v=b&to=fbi.investigation005@gmail.com>
Federal
Bureau of InvestigationJ. Edgar Hoover Building935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
<https://maps.google.com/?q=935+Pennsylvania+Avenue,+NW+Washington,+D.C.+20535&entry=gmail&source=g>NW
Washington,
<https://maps.google.com/?q=935+Pennsylvania+Avenue,+NW+Washington,+D.C.+20535&entry=gmail&source=g>D.C.
20535
<https://maps.google.com/?q=935+Pennsylvania+Avenue,+NW+Washington,+D.C.+20535&entry=gmail&source=g>-0001,
USA Attn: Dear Beneficiary, This is to officially inform you that prior
to the fact that the office(s) and person(s) handling modalities about
your fund release has negatively been working against you the legitimate
beneficiary in order to hack and divert it to another account for their
best interest, to avoid this dubious act from taking place and for security
reasons we decided to move your overdue approved funds to a correspondence
offshore bank in Australia (ANZ Bank), them as the main International Apex
bank in Australia now has the largest bank by market capitalization in
Australia and have been granted the full authority and the functional
telegraphic machines to see your fund overdue fund transfer hit your
nominated bank account without any further delay or breach of law. Well, I
don’t know your stand towards receiving your fund if you have given up
because of the way you have been treated so far by the wrong officials, but
I tell you this that as soon as you sign the (Fund Notarization/Release
Order Documents) as issued by the authorities in Nigeria, your fund will be
released to you immediately because that is the only classified documents
that will empower the ANZ Bank of Australia to release your fund to you as
the only approved bank by the Nigerian Government, United Nation and the
World Bank auditors on foreign debts settlement, and until you receive the
Fund Release Order Documents at your doorstep and sign it to empower the
paying bank to do their job perfectly, you are not going to receive your
fund. This is the simple truth as revealed by the Minister of Finance and
the World Bank auditors on foreign debts settlement. To this effect, I urge
you to listen to me and abide by the instruction given to you by the paying
bank in order to help them be on their best Finally, the office of the
Presidency, the Honorable Minister of Finance and other concerned rightful
offices in charge has handed over the legal approval documents to the ANZ
Bank of Australia with permission to release your fund to you as fast as
possible, and until you sign those documents, you are not going to receive
your fund no matter how hard you try, and this is the Top Secret why you
have not been able to receive your fund yet. We initially asked the ANZ
Bank of Australia to pay you via ATM Swift Card but later withdrew the
arrangement, the reason is because we would not want your ATM Card fund
Encounter any delay or Difficulty in delivery more especially Stop Order by
any authority like IMF or the IRS that is why we came to the conclusion of
releasing your due via BANK TO BANK transfer as it is easier and faster and
would take just 24hrs to be completed. We hereby advise you to reconfirm
to us the below details of yours and also your bank account where you wish
your fund to be credited into because as it now your approved fund (Fifteen
Million United State Dollars) is ready to be transferred into your
stipulated account. 1. Your Full names:2. Your full address:3. Your Direct
Mobile/telephone:4. Age:5. Sex and Marital Statues:6. Your occupation:7.
Banking/Account Details (Where You want Us to Transfer Your Fund Into)8.
Your valid passport for identification As soon as the above information
has been provided by you, Kindly find the below authorized paying bank (ANZ
Bank of Australia) and the rightful person to pay you, contact him so that
he can verify and make immediate records as we have already tendered your
payment file to his for authentication, he will commence further with all
necessary procedures in other to remit this fund into your stipulated bank
account. The United Nation, Executive board of directors and the World Bank
auditors on overdue foreign debts settlement have approved and accredited
the ANZ Bank of Australia (International Apex bank) with the office of the
director, International remittance/foreign operations, to handle and
transfer all foreign inheritance funds for this first quarter payment of
the fiscal year 2022. Mr. Thomas H.AndrewManaging DirectorKTT/Funds
Transfer UnitANZ Bank of AustraliaDirect
Email: wiretransferdept523@gmail.com
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/13xou95m9xxo1/?&cs=wh&v=b&to=wiretransferdept522@gmail.com>
Note:
You are only required to pay only $950 which is for the Registration and
endorsement of this (Fund Notarization/Fund Release Order Warranty) that is
to be delivered to doorstep to enhance and back up the effective transfer
of your overdue fund in no time. all processes will follow
immediately. However, the above-mentioned office shall be forced to
confiscate and keep dormant every modalities guiding your fund release if
he does not hear from you within the next three working days from
today. All we require from you henceforth is an update so as to enable us
to be on track with you and the ANZ Bank of Australia. Without wasting much
time, we want you to contact them immediately with the above email address
so as to enable them to attend to your case accordingly without any further
delay as there is a limit of validity on this transaction and further delay
might make you lose this transaction as the rightful Beneficiary. Should in
case you need any more information in regards to this Notification, be free
to get back to us so that we can brief you more as we are here to guide you
during and after this project has been completely perfected And you have
received your contract fund as stated. Thank you very much for your
cooperation in advance as we earnestly await your urgent response to this
matter.Regards,Christopher Asher Wray (FBI Director)Federal Bureau of
InvestigationJ. Edgar Hoover Building935 Pennsylvania Avenue,
<https://maps.google.com/?q=935+Pennsylvania+Avenue,+NW+Washington,+D.C.+20535&entry=gmail&source=g>NW
Washington,
<https://maps.google.com/?q=935+Pennsylvania+Avenue,+NW+Washington,+D.C.+20535&entry=gmail&source=g>D.C.
20535
<https://maps.google.com/?q=935+Pennsylvania+Avenue,+NW+Washington,+D.C.+20535&entry=gmail&source=g>-0001,
USACell :- 302-597-0252*

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